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How can one begin to speculate on the negotiations between commercialism and design’ To what extent can architecture and design begin to address commercial trends
and mass production? These and other questions are central to Servos investigations into urban inhabitation and development in the 21 st century
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Exhibition Credits: Matthew Fooks, Andrew Vrana, Wes Rossi, Alex Monachino, Daniel Aranda
Special Thanks: Sarah Herda, Ben Aranda, Matthew Fooks, Andrew Vrana, Phil Anzalone, Cory Clarke
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archifoy is assembled out erf two acrylic spee caps and an acrylic
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and spee cap I has 9 components- me spec- caps are connected
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12 components or spee-nng d with 8 components* The speetme toy
is part erf a more extensive collection ol arcrutoys and urban toys to
be released at www s-e r-vo com
The aremtoys and urban toys are etectromcaly purveyed spatial
commotHes which appeal to a consumer who demands a higher
degree of influence on ms or her immediate environment iextending
beyond appliances vehicles and clothing into an envelope which
increasingly usurps obiects and architectural surroundings into me
domain ot consumer mluence) Arctvtoys accelerate the edects ot a
tendency which sees toe relationship oetween consumer and
manufacturer becoming reconfigured by toe integration ol digital
technologies such as rapid prototyping and e commerce nto
architectural practice the sle is designea as an interlace which
provioes tools lor the design o' aremtoys via a senes of operations
and transformations o' input drawings The interface guides a non
design professional through tonal input or 'sketch' stages at mis
potnt the raw material is prepared tor output and distributed to me
manufacturer The finished arctiitoy b men sent to toe consumer
The construction site catalogues a senes ot components or aids lex
designing a toy Architoys provioes an interface for non design
professionals to develop and ckstnbute them goods The site n
attempting to open toe design process to a wide* audience in which
consumers become actve participants provides me mtoasnuclure for
refining sketches into manufacture ready material as well as lor
assembly sequences
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NURBiA Non-lkulorro Ortwin Reciualon Business Inhaalahle Area
borrows Ms form from distortions of large scale vehicular
ml i a structures «) dueling parking garages railways and highways
NURBiA is an urban proposal which examines how these existing
typologies can he reinvented in order to provide (or innovative
difitiiDukons of green areas and vehicular infrastructure with housing
office and ctaitmeroai environments in the dty Two sites outlined by
tho City Planning Office In Stockholm GlyAOara and /fvsf as target
development sites lor Ixxjsing and commeod activity are choosen
as typical sites Mi which NURBIA can be implemented NURBiA
proposes a modular yet flexible structural system allowing lor
innovative re-use scenarios at the mdiwdual housng 01 office mats
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cloud bar
Cloud Bo* and Cloud Bar arc rw f*« two apcocamns of the
Ctoudune system Cloud Bo* was a nine month research
ptojoct funded by the MPi Doparanom o( Aichliecuiie
Cambridge VaHny Uanulactmng Luofei lighting Co ano
Silicon a^pnics Inc and was previously e*n*Uao at ihe
Urban Issues Gallery m Berkn at fll'l m Troy, New YorV and
at U C LAs Oopartmeni of Arcr*lecture and Urban Oesign
Cloud Bar was designed and mamiacturod m throe weeks
as a turther insure and appucatton at the Ooudkrw system
developed and employed In cloud Box and was
axnrrutsianoa by the UCLA. Department c 1 A/chOockue as
a display case tor arcnitecajrai models and drawings The
general intention ol Ctoudnne is to oevelop a prototypical
system of organization which operates m fundamentally
'douo/ ways Hat is to say a system wh.cn migni induce a
certain degree of ambiguity within the interlace ol ils
technologies uses and appheatons as we* as witn its
lormai and organization a tachn^ouos and efleets thereby
allordmg used a ragh degree ot adaptability to both scale
context and use as we* as spocilic diem relaieo
requirements These two prototypes play themselvos out ot
the domestic scale and wimm a general program ol storage
and display yet begin lo irritate an inquiry into architecture*
or urban applications
Because ol its dependency on machine production CNC
mMIng technology relics primarily upon metnoas ol
standardization and optimization lor large scale
manufacturing typically rveugh a system ol parts modules
or typos those projects scugnt to engage ms convention
through modulation partitioning, ono type casing, whiio
simultaneously exploring the technologys capacity lo
produce flexibility and variation
This two told oojectrve of employing standardization m the
production cf variation operates at two scales the first ot
which samples desgn standards Iron a variety ol typical
display cases lo develop a modular panel and she* system
and the second of which utilizes CNC mBing techno egy to
ekh a system ol peHways into those panels and shelves
with Cioud Box these pathway6 rteuibuie fiber optic cables
lor ilgniing purposes With Cloud Bar tnoy contlgiire both
shoving and drawing panel arrangements lor display ai
both scales meinods ol repetition and redundancy are
employed as a way ot affording flexibility This liexiomiy is
reflected not only on an organizational level in that noth
shelves, canes, and drawrg panels are ahowed mulupie
conlrguratons mougn loose fits, but on a programmatic
level as we# In the sense tnai wh#e operating as a purety
lunctionai storage and display unit He system performs
stnuitaneously as an object of display >n and of nsetl.
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